Bad Ending - Rebirth Worthy of a King -

Ending 2 (Bad Ending) – Rebirth worthy of a King –

Conditions to Unlock:

+ Save Fluttershy without killing her
+ Befriend the mermaid ponies and the harpy’s species of monsters
+ Get bitten by All Vampire Knights
+ Finish up the game with or without the Perfect Replica Body scroll
+ Reach corruption to the maximum (But do not die by it)
+ Complete the map.

Rewards:

+ King Sombra Tech Horn (*)
+ Flutterbat Blood Jewel (*)
+ Deathscythe Scythe (*)


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Mistshine felt a burning pain in his chest, like if he had drank a bottle of hot sauce in one of Pinkie Pie parties, once he could open his eyes, he saw himself on the Princess Bedroom, rebuild, he screamed in terror, to which Alure Une came to his aid, however, she looked weakened and withered, Mistshine grew concerned and asked what happened, Alure pointed at the mirror in the room.

“W-what happened?!?”

Mistshine yelled at the top of his lungs, despise his new Power of Purity, his eyes had the purple mist emanating from his corneas, his eyes were full red and his fangs are grown, indicating he unfortunately had turned into a vampire stallion himself, his steel wings were bat type and in his head, was the same tech horn he burned to crisp, King Sombra horn, he asked for Alure to slap him, thinking this was just a bad dream, he called for Fluttershy, but he didn’t received any reply, he ran outside as fast as possible, just to find himself with the horrible truth.

The Steel Empire was rebuild on its fullest, nothing was destroyed or broken; it looked like it was before Poisonhoof initial attack, he looked at his gizmo clock and activated it, calling all his friends, when they all came, they hugged Mistshine, crying, and explaining what happened.

“She… she nearly kill us!” Coldshard said crying on the stallion shoulder.

Mistshine inquired. “Who?”

“Princess Celestia!” Redhoof said, her face was badly damaged.

Mistshine fear grew as he felt the dark magic on his body increasing, making his heart ache. “B-but why?!, I was positive she would accept you guys.”

“She didn´t…I…I recorded a message… from her, here it is” Redhoof said as she displayed the massage stored on her memory.

Mistshine saw how the image of her and the mane 6 behind her appeared, talking. “ Mistshine Brave… if you are hearing this, I’m positive you know you are sealed inside the Steel Empire, and that the sky on the empire is always red… that is because you are inside a limbo, inside the 1000 years banishment spell.”

“She... She called us.... M-monsters...” Coldshard started to cry even more.

Soul Shield continued. “After you beat Poisonhoof, she looked at all of us and saw we still had dark magic present within us, so she gave us the option, of either die peacefully by her hoof or remain here with you.”

“T-Twilight tried to help us…but…” Black tide said, scared to speak further.

Mistshine wrath started to grew as she saw what she would do. “I know that this might come with a shock to you, but as ruler of Equestria, you understand I cannot put my ponies in danger with your monsters in Ponyville, despise their actions... they were still created with dark magic, and since half of them feeds with pony flesh I had to resort to drastic measures... I sealed off the empire with the most powerful spell I was capable of create, while I also erased the memory of your friends and family.”

“W-what?!?... So Fluttershy...” Mistshine said... nearly about to cry, Soul Shield replied positive. “Yes...she will never remember you.”

Celestia message continued. “I’m sorry Mistshine... but is for the well being of Equestria... the shield will not kill your friends fast... make the most out of it...” the message ends, with Redhoof looking at Mistshine very sadden

“So.... That means we'll fade away.... “Harpy sounded really depressed. “Not that it surprises me... I already knew I was gonna die somehow...”

However... something was wrong on Mistshine eyes... anger flashed instantly... as he gave an order to his friends. “No... You won’t my friends... gather any surviving monsters in the empire as fast as possible!, rebuild the cryostasis chambers and meet me on Poisonhoof laboratory!”

“W-what will you do Mistshine?” Redhoof said, very worried about where her friend was going.

Mistshine eyes grew full green now as the power of purity flashed on the horn. “If Celestia wants a war... she will have a war...Mark my word Princess of the Sun!, the Brave family was born to protect Equestria treasures!, but you betrayed us!, and you don’t make a enemy with somepony that knows ALL your secrets!, prepare yourself... as for today forward, Mistshine Brave is nothing more than a memory!, from today onwards!, I will be know as The Metal King! Hear my wrath and tremble!!”

And just like that... Mistshine last spark of kindness died within him, the laughter of Poisonhoof echoed on the empire, as his friends already faced their worst fear, their kind friend had fully fallen to the corruption, turning not only into the vampire pony he was so trying to prevent, but also the new owner of the empire, however, things were different in the empire for him and all the monsters in general, there was that spark of kindness in his heart for the monsters, but when they failed him in something, they saw genuine wrath in him, although Mistshine never hurt them, they felt both fear, and respect to him, perhaps due to the power of purity he had in his heart, that power seems it shielded the stallion soul, however… every power has its limits.

A few months passed, and Fluttershy outside of the empire felt uneasy, as if she was remembering something, Angel Bunny was not affected by Celestia memory spell, so when the spell time grew weak, the bunny spilled the beans for her, Angel learned so much with Mistshine, he was even able to replicate the animal translator, and since he still kept his weapons, he had the evidence to back it up, even Discord was surprised by the little bunny tale.

“So that’s all that happened!, please you have to believe me!, Fluttershy, Discord!, we need to go to the stone ark!, fix it and break the banishment spell!, is the only way we can still save Mistshine!” Angel plead to the chaos spirit and his owner.

The shy pegasi held her head, trying to recover “I'm so confused about this... I seem to recall things but... “ Fluttershy looked at his friend with certain worry. “Discord, did you know about this?”

“I.... Perhaps I did. “ Even he didn't feel proud of that. “I'm sorry, Fluttershy... But I didn't want to see you spend the rest of your life mourning him”

Angel pleaded one more time. “Please!, we need to at least try it, Mistshine risked his coat for Fluttershy, and I fear that if he was sealed in the Empire, even him will not be able to withstand all the corruption alone, neither will Alure and the others survive, they barely cheated death 1000 years ago with cryostasis chambers, and when Mistshine and I explored the place, the cryo chambers were destroyed.”

“Is all that true?! If this pony did all that for me...” Fluttershy said... starting to wet up.

Discord looked at her friend getting seriously sad over Mistshine, and realized there was no reason to keep it hidden from her. “Fluttershy, dear... This might hurt a little.”

“... I will get the towel... sorry for this my owner” Angel said as he used his ice sword to freeze Fluttershy hooves to prevent her from moving.

Fluttershy reacted terrified at their actions “AAAH!!! GUYS... WHAT IT'S GOING.ON?!”

Discord didn't lose a moment and instantly struck the yellow pegasus with a powerful blast; one that reverted the effects of Celestia's spell, Angel removed the ice sword blade from the pegasi hooves, unfreezing them. “F-Fluttershy?... do you now remember?...”

“... uuugh...” Fluttershy felt her head hurt for a moment, but after a while, an angry expression appeared on her “Celestia... Why did you do that?! “

The bunny looked at his owner “She said it was for the well being of everypony, the monsters could feed on pony flesh if their dark magic was not kept contained.” Angel said as he equipped his ice sword on his back.

“But did she know they had a heart and soul?!” she rapidly picked up the rabbit and put him on her back. “Discord, pass me his wrench. We need to save him now!”

What Fluttershy didn’t knew was that Discord didn’t had possession of the stallion wrench, in fact the wrench was not even in Celestia possession, however, the spirit of chaos teleport them to where the wrench was, the wrench was buried inside the pieces of the stone ark in the Everfreee forest, near the barrier was another one of Princess Celestia barriers, the sprit of chaos broke it without effort and between the 3 of them started to repair the stone ark... however, when it was completed... a presence alerted Discord and Angel, Angel got himself on guard using the learned with Mistshine. A royal voice let very clear who was the one that found them.

“Stop this at once Discord, and Fluttershy!” Celestia said in her royal manner.

Angel however jumped from Discord, using him as a plank. “Make me! This is for Mistshine”

“...” Celestia just used her wing to slap the bunny, breaking his animal translator, silencing him.

Angel couldn’t talk anymore; he just jumped, trying to alert Fluttershy and Discord. “bepsh!”

“Grr.” Discord looked at Celestia, angrier than usual “CELESTIA, I THINK IT'S ENOUGH OF THIS CHARADE!!! THIS ISN'T HELPING, IS PROBABLY DOING THINGS WORSE!!!”

Celestia sadden looked at the draconequus “Discord... you of all ponies should know what would happen if I allow the monsters to appear suddenly on Equestria, there is no point on telling how far the dark magic corrupted them, they can be passive and then one moment, attack suddenly, specially the harpies and mermaids ponies.” Celestia said, having knowledge of the monsters themselves.

“But did you see them when Poisonhoof WASN'T controlling them?! Do you think you know them?!” Fluttershy faced the princess with all her rage “You knew Mistshine did his best for everyone! He couldn't let them die!”

Celestia replied sadden, knowing something that would break the pegasi heart. “Fluttershy... is too late for him already... when he was unconscious, the corruption absorbed by Poisonhoof returned to him and hit the maximum, his power of purity will not hold forever, and not even me can clean him, when the Power of Purity runs out, he will be doomed to repeat the same mistake as Poisonhoof, so before the monsters turn evil again, I decided to seal him with them.”

“B-But... That's not true....” Fluttershy refused to believe this. “THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!”

Celestia continued. “You know is the truth Fluttershy, you of all ponies should know how close you were to die by corruption, and he already crossed the line, so please, let me try the spell one more time.”

“OH HELL NO!” Hearing what she was about to do, Discord intervened before she could do anything. “THIS IS GOING TOO FAR FOR YOU, CELESTIA!!! You don't know if she'll withstand another spell!”

Celestia sigh as she talked “if I do not do it Discord, then YOU do it!, you know as well as me than when the memory spell wore off, all her emotions for him came back at full speed, and if the ark is already fixed, Mistshine can exit the empire, and he is most likely to be corrupted, if you care for your friend, erase the memory yourself! It is your duty!” Celestia demanded with authority on her voice making her horn glow. “Or I will make it for you”

“…” If Celestia was right in something, it was that Mistshine was no more the pony he used to be. But what Fluttershy has to live now... Was knowing the fate that the innocent habitants of the Empire have to endure now... He was not going to let that go unpunished. “I'm so sorry, my friend....” Discord said as he put his eagle claw over the pegasus head, and performed the mind clearing spell. Fluttershy's tear stopped to flow, as she banished into the floor unconscious. It was done.

Angel saw this and tried to jump with intentions of attacking the princess, but Celestia also cleaned the mind of the poor bunny wiped clean, Once Fluttershy woke up, she do not longer had any knowledge of who Mistshine was or what had transpired into the Empire, everything was just like a horrible dream... however, as the years passed, Fluttershy usual kind self was slowly disappearing, until a more assertive and direct Fluttershy was all that remained, as if she was discorded like that time during Discord revival, however, Celestia confirmed the element of kindness was still present within the mare, a nasty side effect of a second mind erasing spell, a side effect that Discord regretted, but repeated over and over again “It’s necessary”.

Years passed and the Legend of The Steel Empire was born, going officially in history as a empire of nightmares and fear, created to kidnap colts that misbehave, similar to Nightmare Moon tale adapted for Nightmare Night, in such tale, it tells the following; Mistshine was known as the “Metal King” a king capable of controlling anything metallic and know for having control over all kind of creatures, from Timberwolves to the most brutal pony-animals hybrids, any foal or filly that “misbehave” or “rebel” against their parents, will be kidnapped at night by a harpy and taken away to the empire for a slavery fate. As the years passed, Fluttershy didn’t even wanted Discord as friend anymore, to make matters worse; she stopped taking care of animals. Last time Twilight heard about her friend, was when she got married with a unicorn from Ponyville that was a high status pony, however, life was rough for her, as the husband she got, didn’t resisted her assertiveness, leaving her alone with a single child.

1000 years later, Celestia looked upon her fateful student, time already made possible for her student to forgive her for her actions against Mistshine and the Brave family, Luna on the other hoof, still had problems in forgiving her sister one little thing, since Stormy Brave, Mistshine big brother tried to search for him, Celestia used the same memory spell on him, but that also erased the memories he had of Luna, breaking up their relationship, the Harmony Ocarina that originally belonged to the stallion was now on the Princess of the Night possession...  as for Celestia, she couldn’t forgive herself... she looked at the wrench she kept from the stallion with pain in her heart... as she talked to her student and sister, it was the anniversary of the Legend of the Steel Empire fairytale creation, and just like nightmare night, foals and fillies dressed up as the monsters from the fairy tale.

“...” Celestia looked incredible sad as she reflected. “What other mistake will I do Luna?... even after 1000 years had passed, I still question myself if it was the right choice...”

Luna looked at her sister with a concerned look. “You have been like this for over a week already Tia... you should let it go... what is done is done...”

“I know it was hard when Discord left us, but we have always taken hard decisions...” Twilight tried to comfort the princess “We cannot change what we did, but hope it was for the best.”

“I hope you are right Twilight, my great relief is that you still are the Element of Magic and my closest friend in these times, what about the other element holders, were you able to find them?” Celestia let out a sigh and looked at her student.

Twilight smiled with glee “I have... And I'm sure you'll like to meet them”

“Please bring them Twilight, I need to see if there harmony energy present in then” Celestia said as she smiled.

Her pupil nodded and left the room, only to return shortly followed by five young mares, all resembling their old ancestors, the original Mane 6, there was a unicorn dragon hybrid that looked a lot like Rarity, indicating her obvious ancestry, next was a puffy mane mare with fondness for candy, a earth pony that shared her legacy with the apple family, and finally a pegasi that was not multi colored mane, but real fast on the air, Celestia was looking at the original mane 5 reincarnated in the new millennium.

“Their likeness is uncanny.” Luna said as she looked at each of the mares, but one of them was missing. “Wait… where is the last one?”

The mare representing generosity called the one missing. “Silver Blossom, dear, stop being so hidden, the princess wants to meet you.”

“I'm sorry... It's just....” the sound of her voice brought many memories to the princess, although if her voice ringed a bell to them, her presence was like a concert of bells “I am.... kinda nervous of meeting them”

A young earth pony entered the room, and only a glimpse of her was enough for Celestia to panic inside; she looked just like Mistshine, but at the same time just like Fluttershy. A small pair of goggles on her head was her own personal memento, although she was an earth pony, her hair was the same as the previous element of kindness, but with Mistshine hair colors, her cutie mark was a butterfly with a screwdriver, indicating her talent for machinery and animal caretaker.

Celestia tried to calm herself down, fearing the worst, hiding the wrench on her throne the best she could, even Twilight and Luna could tell that Celestia was having a panic attack as she tried to talk, perhaps her conscience finally hit it’s toll?. “C-child, your name is Silver Blossom right? And where do you live?”

“Well.... I... I live in a cottage near the Everfree “ She began to say. “It's been... A refuge for my family since...” In that moment, she managed to catch a glimpse from the wrench behind the throne, and she got a little bit excited. “E-excuse me.... Is that a...”

Celestia without nothing else to back her up, revealed the wrench she had hidden. “Y-yes... is a wrench... but it was used by an evil and nasty king...”

“... Let her see it Tia....” Luna said, not approving what Celestia said about the owner of the wrench.

Celestia handed over the wrench to the young filly. “Is the same wrench featured on the Steel Empire fairy tale”

“Y-you mean... The Metal King's wrench?!” looking at the artifact filled her with both fear and awe “Can I.... See it closer?”

Celestia nodded. “Sure...”

The Princess fears were confirmed when the shy pony instantly became familiar with the wrench, able to tell the components it was made of, when the little earth pony put her goggles on, it seems as she was totally focused by it, like if she was a different mare all together. The wrench reacted to the shy mare, activating it’s hidden power, a fragment of the power of purity... a power once the Metal King had to protect others, to Silver, it felt warm, and cozy, filled with love and compassion, sending a wave of questions to the shy mare.

“So it's true.... It was made with a blending of dragon scales and steel, it seems to be magic repellant” She said as she inspected the object, with a great smile of fascination “The legendary Draco Wrench... It feels... So amazing to hold.”

Celestia smiled... lost in a different era... before wrapping the wrench up and put it on the mare back, perhaps recovering some of her sanity and try to make things right from her mistakes in the past. “Keep it... the fairy tale mentions the Draco Wrench was used to construct the empire... but this is something the fairy tail do not mention... it also chooses it’s owner.”

“Your majesty!!!” A royal guard came in running, bleeding, scaring everypony in the room

Luna replied. “I command you, what happened?!”

“The.... the Everfree... the Everfree castle... is attacking!, creatures are crawling from there... they are no... They are not normal ponies!” the guard said before fainting.

A loud crash in the throne room put Celestia into alert, she saw to her horror a harpy monster dodging successfully the guards spears and picking up one of the new elements holders, and Silver Blossom best friend... Sapphire Circlet, the one that looked like Rarity but with dragon features, Celestia shoot instantly without questioning her most powerful spell, making the harpy cry in agony as she crash landed near Twilight and Silver, Celestia prepared another shot but Silver stopped her, even Luna stopped her sister, Silver found something on the creature claw... while Twilight fascinated, tried to keep the creature alive, studying her body.

“This is unbelievable!” Twilight said as she analyzed the creature “Half pony, half eagle... The level of genetic enginery is incredibly advanced! But... Who could have created them?”

The young engineer pony looked at them with a terrified expression “Y-you should read this....” In a hurry, she gave the note that was on the creature claw to Princess Celestia, who proceeded to read it out loud.

“Guess...who’s back...” Celestia face turned pale. “We need to get to the Everfree castle, NOW!, Twilight, leave the creature... we...”

Before Celestia could react the harpy used her wings to try to fly but felt to the ground, when she looked up however, she saw Silver right in front of her... the creature recognized the wrench on the mare hoof and crawled towards her more eager, leaving a blood trial, once she was closer to her, she rose herself as she could and bowed to the shy pony, to the surprise of everypony on the room before dying on the hooves of the new element of kindness, as she died, her body quickly turned into blue flames, that didn’t burned Silver at all, but left her with a little key, confused, everypony exited the castle, just for Celestia horror to see not only a bunch of harpies attacking the city, but also several pony heads that flew to their targets and freeze them into stone statues, filling Canterlot streets with garden ornaments, the mane 6 and the princesses took the first train to Ponyville in order to get to the Everfree forest, in said forest several things made Celestia panic, the vines growing incredible fast, harpy presence, and even the wrench activation, when they reached the castle, Celestia, Luna, Twilight and the new mane 5 saw the door that protected the elements opened already, from said door a light grey pony with vampire clothes appeared, holding a box with the 5 elements of harmony, only magic was left untouched, Celestia quickly jumped and attacked followed by the other 2 princess, however the dark colt was shielded by a barrier made out of cotton candy, Celestia knew perfectly well who magic was this one, as she asked for freedom.

“Release us and tell Discord that if he is helping you, I will…” Celestia demanded, angry.

The stallion laughed as he pulled the magic element for a moment out of the tree of harmony. “In due time... besides… I believe you are NOT in position to demand anything, remember me now Celestia?... “

“The Metal King... Or should I say Mistshine Brave?” Twilight looked defiantly to the stallion. Silver reacted surprised to what was happening.

The shy mare reacted. “Mistshine Brave? Who is that? You... You met the Metal King?!” Silver Blossom questioned.

“That name... it was a name I haven’t heard... a long time ago... much more that I would like to admit, how much was it?, 10, 100 years?, or was 1000 years?...” Mistshine smiled as if the voice of the mare remembered him about a time looong forgotten.

The stallion turn around facing the new element holders, the 5 mares could easy see their foe, Mistshine cream colors had been lost and replaced with a light grey coat color, his eyes were blood red with a iris similar to bats, the purple mist signal of the dark magic of the forgotten King Sombra was present on him, his fangs were exposed revealing he is a vampire pony, and his mane has totally lost its color, the white mane had replaced the black one, but his red part of his hair was still there, however, he had new steel wings on his back that are bat type wings, and finally a bright red tech horn to allow him to cast magic. Silver looked at her hair, scared, as she have the same red color in her own hair, the stallion instantly looked at the wrench on the mare back, and smiled.

“Y-you...you look at lot like her... take care of that wrench… and it will take care of you” Mistshine said before receiving blast from the princess with 0 effects on him.

Celestia yelled. “Leave her out of this metal king!”

“You know... I was hoping to have a nice and little chat...BUT IF YOU WANT TO SPEED YOUR DEATH THEN SO BE IT!!” the stallion yelled as he levitated the 6 elements, the elements started to surround him

Celestia eyes grew wide. “But... You can't use the Elements!” Twilight said terrified “What kind of dark sorcery is this?!”

The vampire stallion didn't answer, but instead prepared to attack the group of ponies. But then, out of fear, Silver Blossom intervened on time “STOP! WHY DO YOU WANT TO HURT US???”

“Hehehehe” Mistshine smiled as he laughed. “My dear sweet child... who said you and your friends were the target?, let me guess Celestia… THIS is what you were going to do with Discord!, right!?”

Much to the horror of everypony present, Mistshine changed target and aimed at Celestia, he used his tech horn magic to steal the Element of Magic power, thus, activating Equestria most powerful weapon, The Harmony Blast as hard as possible, the rainbow power stored on the elements exited the corrupted horn, changing their colors dramatically to a negative colored rainbow blast, this blast hit Celestia hard, not only freeing her from the cotton candy prison, but making her a pure stone statue, just like when she turned Discord into a garden decorative item, finally the stallion attack turned to Luna as well, making her suffer the same fate, the laughter of the stallion was heard from far away as he ordered the harpies flying in the sky to take the 2 princesses away, the harpy pack obeyed as they carried the princesses statues away, terrified Silver Blossom attacked hitting the stallion back with the Draco Wrench, releasing Twilight sparkle out of her prison, Twilight however, was broken...her mentors are gone, however Mistshine words for the new mane 6 gave them a little hope.

“You know... they are not dead right?...if you really want to save them, come to my empire... but seriously Twilight... you of all ponies should know what she did to me... so this is all her fault...” Mistshine said as he rose up, he levitated the Element of Magic out of the cave and put it in front of Twilight, defying her. “If you think your precious elements of Friendship will help you this time, let me give you a news flash…” The stallion lifted the mare face with his hoof. “Your friends are all dead… and these new fillies need time to earn their elements, and until that happen, you are as weak and  pathetic as Celestia.”  Mistshine turned around slapping the mare a little soft with his tail, teleporting again and taking away 5 of the elements with him and throwing away the Element of Magic jewel, its bright glow was gone.

Twilight was still in shock “The princesses.... No, this is terrible... WE HAVE TO TAKE THEM BACK!!!”

“But... But how?!” Silver Blossom looked very terrified of what just happened “He took the Elements and somehow got the power to use them. You know him better than I, The Metal King is a wicked stallion of darkness!”

One of the monsters however... landed and picked up the devastated Twilight and her element, and put her next to the mane 5, she replied landing in front of everypony, she was a beautiful harpy, of the same age as Silver Blossom, her feathers were black as the night sky, but with white tips, giving her a star design, her beak was orange and her eyes green, her coat was light blue her cutie mark was a white feather with a musical note behind it. “He was not always like that... trust me... I know...”

“Oh my... your wings are simply divine... but... why are you helping us?” Sapphire Circlet, Silver Blossom friend inquired.

The creature replied. “T-thank you for the complement” The monster hid her face in embarrassment. “B-but this is not the time, my master before coming said he wanted to put the new elements to a test, follow me, I know the way to the empire.”

“A test? But... How can we trust you?” the alicorn looked at the creature with an angry look, still shocked by the kidnapping of Princess Celestia and Luna.

The shy pegasi helped Twilight get up. “I'm sure we can trust her.... “Silver Blossom said instantly “I don't know why, but I feel it.”

“Excellent!, let me guide you... but... just one warning... Even if they are statues, your princesses can still control the sun and the moon only!, so, if it gets dark or is night time... hide... as best as you can and do not lower your guard until day time.” The harpy warned as she flew.

Having no other options the mane 6 followed the harpy between the wooden area of the forest, reaching to the abandoned train rail tracks that took to the stone ark, the harpy passed first, Twilight jumped inside the stone ark, disappearing from everypony sight, then Silver Blossom friends, until she was the last one, a blinding light made her close her eyes as she walked, once she woke up she found herself in the desert area of Equestria, surely Circlet would had already complained, if she was there with her, Silver Blossom scared ran, trying to find her friends, but she couldn’t find them, despise how well she can orient herself...she walked for a few minutes until she reached a huge bridge with a Iron gate

Silver didn’t knew what to do, all of this was happening so fast that she was wondering why she had this feeling she should continue, she saw the lock on the door, just to find a little keyhole, she pulled out the key she received from the dying harpy back in Canterlot, and her intuition proved that it worked, the key opened the gate allowing her access to the place behind the gate... her eyes shrank as she was received by a robotic mare, dressed up as a maid.

“W-w-w-w-welcome traveler... t-t-to the Steel Empire.” said the maid, her voice chip was very worn out.

Silver Blossom couldn't believe her eyes “W-welcome? W-who are you?”

“I’m a servant robot, named Persephone Nº153, I’m one of the many maid robots that cleans and maintain the empire in optimal conditions.” The robot replied, bowing to Silver Blossom with kindness.

“So... You are an inhabitant of the Empire... “ she said impressed “D-Did you see... other five ponies around here?”

“Oh yeah, they all separated inside the empire, I hope they didn’t get lost, the empire went some renovations during this last 1000 years, feel free to explore, I recommend the Forest of Enchantments, it had grew a lot.” the maid replied.

The door opened automatically allowing the shy mare to fully enter the empire, she took courage from Celestia knows where and entered galloping, without her knowing that the door closed itself shut behind her, a force field appeared on said door, preventing any pony from getting out, the robotic mare even went as far as to close the iron gate and locking it back up with a spare key she had in her dress... when nopony was near her, her kind expression quickly changed to a red eyed and smiley face, as the torches on the empire door turned off, allowing the darkness to take hold, her dress changed with the shadows, it revealed to have lot of holes and her expression changed to a twisted sadistic face, she just repeated one last line... before breaking up into pieces...

“Oh yes...Welcome...Welcome indeed to the Steel Empire...”